Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11
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Libre Office is a good replacement for Office/Word, but it is much heavier than WordPad.
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It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).
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Likely feels that way because it has to load the Java runtime before launching.
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I believe, it only loads a Java runtime for the JDBC database driver in LibreOffice Base. At least, you can tell it in the settings to not use a Java runtime and that seems to not affect the remaining functionality…
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